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Not a dream—a vision awake in bed: a light coming toward us like fingers of snow in our headlights. Later they are not there and I cannot find them. Later still they are traveling in front of me showing lines moving right to left.

:- Doug.

Complete us they do
other beings
friends spouses strangers dogs
filling in us holes
we have unknowing

:- Doug.

You are giving your grandchildren something as subtle as your heartbeat. In fact you are giving your heartbeat.

:- Doug.

The generations have been spent propagating surprising creative things, like you.

:- Doug.

Three hundred years for story weaving.

:- Doug.

Do you still know what a firefly is? And what it’s for?

:- Doug.

Is there a story you tell or have heard that always perks you up?

:- Doug.

Looking back at us, how might people figure a way to human better? What did we do that turned out better than planned? What worse? For what had we no plan? How did that turn out?

:- Doug.

How do you respond to evil?

:- Doug.

What do you remember of . . . ?

:- Doug.

What were meals like growing up?

:- Doug.

In my nap-time dream, I am the dreamer, I am the dreamed, I enjoy the event and playing all the roles. I smile. I am refreshed.

:- Doug.

Stories want ears
Questions want stirring
Lemonade to be made

:- Doug.

No, I don’t want to be sure we’ve heard this voice. I want us sure we are attending for the voice and testing what we think we hear. Something vague, unclear may get through and it may in some way help.

:- Doug.

Heart beat detection is a skill we can learn. It may help us hear the generations.

:- Doug.

Times have changed. How?

:- Doug.

What do you think of our younger generation?

:- Doug.

What’s it take to talk with children, to really connect?

:- Doug.

There may be an actual food for thinking.

:- Doug.

We get better at collaborating with the generations by study. Our study goes beyond book study and cogitations to the meeting places—the betweens—such as gestures, conversation, food.

:- Doug.

We might plant seeds in the shape of questions to rankle across centuries.

:- Doug.

We have conversed via legends and myths.

:- Doug.

Write the story of a great “I would do otherwise”—maybe not a life changer, only a regret that after these years taps you on the shoulder.

:- Doug.